How many wavelengths per second are in one mega hertz? Or am I completely confused, and mega hertz isn't a unit used to measure this?? If so, what is it?
2007-11-22 12:44:38 · 2 answers · asked by pspkilla 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Hertz is a measure of cycles per second. Or how many times a wave repeats in a second. Which could be considered the number of wavelengths per second
1 Hz = 1 cycle per second
Mega is the engineering prefix for 10^6
1 Mhz is 1X10^6 cycles per second
1 million cycles per second
Similarly,
1 kHz = 1000 Hz
1 MHz = 1,000,000 Hz
1 GHz = 1,000,000,000 Hz
1 THz = 1,000,000,000,000 Hz
2007-11-22 13:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by radne0 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A wavelength is a distance. The thing that you would count per second is the number of waves, not the length. A megahertz is one million waves per second.
2007-11-22 21:31:54 · answer #2 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋